Senior Payments Platform Engineer – Scale & Ruby on Rails

Gusto; New York (NY); On-site; USD 222,000 - 245,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity (RSUs)

Job summary

Gusto is hiring seasoned software engineers to join core platform capabilities, improving extensibility and scalability of the Payments platform. You will guide projects end-to-end, making architectural decisions and driving projects from concept to production.

You will work with teams across Engineering, Product, Design, Data Science, and Operations to build scalable, maintainable systems and mentor peers to deliver high-quality software for the modern economy.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering in a collaborative, test-driven environment.
• Experience building fault-tolerant, mission-critical software and designing distributed systems using multiple general-purpose languages.
• Experience guiding multiple teams on scaling, refactoring, and optimizing legacy products.
• Experience architecting, building, and testing large-scale production-grade code that is maintainable, well-documented, and structured.
• Able to clarify and simplify complex problems; communicate technical tradeoffs effectively.
• Experience in Payments and/or Accounting systems is highly preferred.
• Bonus: Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, and React experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and test the infrastructure enabling Payments teams and cross-functional partners to create custom experiences.
• Scale one of the largest Ruby/Rails and TypeScript/React applications in the world.
• Collaborate on complex problems with Engineering, Product, Design, Data Science, and Operations teams.
• Build a software platform powering multiple products for millions of businesses.
• Mentor engineers to develop holistic, scalable solutions.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Mentorship

Tools

Ruby on Rails

TypeScript

React

Job description

Gusto is hiring seasoned software engineers to join core platform capabilities, improving extensibility and scalability of the Payments platform. You will guide projects end-to-end, making architectural decisions and driving projects from concept to production.

You will work with teams across Engineering, Product, Design, Data Science, and Operations to build scalable, maintainable systems and mentor peers to deliver high-quality software for the modern economy.